Michael F. McTear

Orcid: 0000-0001-9883-7500

Affiliations:
  • Ulster University, Newtownabbey, UK


According to our database1, Michael F. McTear authored at least 80 papers between 1988 and 2023.

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2023
Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing.
Sensors, March, 2023

A Comparative Study of Chatbot Response Generation: Traditional Approaches Versus Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, 2023

Towards Validating a Chatbot Usability Scale.
Proceedings of the Design, User Experience, and Usability, 2023

2022
Empowering Well-Being Through Conversational Coaching for Active and Healthy Ageing.
Proceedings of the Participative Urban Health and Healthy Aging in the Age of AI, 2022

Usability testing and trust analysis of a mental health and wellbeing chatbot.
Proceedings of the ECCE 2022: 33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, October 4, 2022

Review mining to discover user experience issues in mental health and wellbeing chatbots.
Proceedings of the ECCE 2022: 33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, October 4, 2022

2021
Can Chatbots Help Support a Person's Mental Health? Perceptions and Views from Mental Healthcare Professionals and Experts.
ACM Trans. Comput. Heal., 2021


2020
Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems, Conversational Agents, and Chatbots
Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-031-02176-3, 2020

Co-creating Requirements and Assessing End-User Acceptability of a Voice-Based Chatbot to Support Mental Health: A Thematic Analysis of a Living Lab Workshop.
Proceedings of the Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, 2020

2019
Natural Language for an Interoperable Internet of Simple Things.
Proceedings of the 5th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, 2019

Usability testing of a healthcare chatbot: Can we use conventional methods to assess conversational user interfaces?
Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, 2019

Towards Chatbots to Support Bibliotherapy Preparation and Delivery.
Proceedings of the Chatbot Research and Design - Third International Workshop, 2019

Digital Empathy Secures Frankenstein's Monster.
Proceedings of the 5th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2019), 2019

Is there an Optimal Technology to Provide Personal Supportive Feedback in Prevention of Obesity?
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2019

WeightMentor, bespoke chatbot for weight loss maintenance: Needs assessment & Development.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2019

2018
Assessing the Usability of a Chatbot for Mental Health Care.
Proceedings of the Internet Science, 2018

2017
Towards a chatbot for digital counselling.
Proceedings of the HCI 2017, 2017

2016
The Rise of the Conversational Interface: A New Kid on the Block?
Proceedings of the Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology. Machine Learning and Big Data, 2016

2014
A Virtual Coach for Active Ageing Based on Sentient Computing and m-health.
Proceedings of the Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities, 2014

2011
Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Spoken Dialogue Research.
Proceedings of the Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design, 2011

2010
A Methodology for Learning Optimal Dialog Strategies.
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue, 13th International Conference, 2010

Dialogue-based Management of user Feedback in an Autonomous Preference Learning System.
Proceedings of the ICAART 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, 2010

2009
Spoken Dialogue Systems
Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-031-02134-3, 2009

The role of spoken language dialogue interaction in intelligent environments.
J. Ambient Intell. Smart Environ., 2009

2008
Spoken language understanding.
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2008

Special Issue on "Evaluating new methods and models for advanced speech-based interactive systems".
Speech Commun., 2008

Automated Phone Capture of Diabetes Patients Readings with Consultant Monitoring via the Web.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2008), 31 March, 2008

2007
Promoting extension and reuse in a spoken dialog manager: An evaluation of the queen's communicator.
ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2007

Dialogue on Dialogues - Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Advanced Speech-Based Interactive Systems: A Report on the Interspeech 2006 Satellite Event.
AI Mag., 2007

Utilizing online content as domain knowledge in a multi-domain dynamic dialogue system.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2007, 2007

2006
Testing the performance of spoken dialogue systems by means of an artificially simulated user.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 2006

A Bucket-Based Approach to Query Rewriting Using Views in the Presence of Inclusion Dependencies.
J. Res. Pract. Inf. Technol., 2006

Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

2005
Handling errors and determining confirmation strategies - An object-based approach.
Speech Commun., 2005

Implementing advanced spoken dialogue management in Java.
Sci. Comput. Program., 2005

Influences of Functional Dependencies on Bucket-Based Rewriting Algorithms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Web-Age Information Management, 2005

Developing extensible and reusable spoken dialogue components: an examination of the Queen's communicator.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

An approach to multi-strategy dialogue management.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

Evaluating the DI@l-log system on a cohort of elderly, diabetic patients: results from a preliminary study.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

Appraisal of a Conversational Artefact and Its Utility in Remote Patient Monitoring.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2005), 2005

2004
Guidelines for multimodal user interface design.
Commun. ACM, 2004

Bucket-Based Query Rewriting with Disjunctive Data Source.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004), 2004

Cross domain dialogue modelling: an object-based approach.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2004, 2004

The voice-logbook: integrating human factors for a chronic care system.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2004, 2004

Improving View Selection in Query Rewriting Using Domain Semantics.
Proceedings of the ICEIS 2004, 2004

The Queen's Agents: Using Collaborating Object-Based Dialogue Agents in the Queen's Communicator.
Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

Intelligent Computer Consultants - Interfacing the Future.
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2004), 2004

Some Modifications of Bucket-Based Algorithms for Query Rewriting Using Views.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Systems, Third International Conference, 2004

Talking Telemedicine: Is the Interactive Voice-Logbook Evolving into the Cornerstone of Diabetes Healthcare?
Proceedings of the Dialogue Systems for Health Communication, 2004

Spoken dialogue technology - toward the conversational user interface.
Springer, ISBN: 978-1-85233-672-1, 2004

2003
Query rewriting using views in the presence of inclusion dependencies.
Proceedings of the Fifth ACM CIKM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2003), 2003

Scalable Query Reformulation Using Views in the Presence of Functional Dependencies.
Proceedings of the Advances in Web-Age Information Management, 2003

The queen's communicator: an object-oriented dialogue manager.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Query Rewriting in the Presence of Functional Dependencies with Lossless Join Decomposition.
Proceedings of the iiWAS'2003, 2003

Challenges in teaching user interface design for telephones and cell phones.
Proceedings of the Extended abstracts of the 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2003

2002
Spoken dialogue technology: enabling the conversational user interface.
ACM Comput. Surv., 2002

A pragmatic confirmation mechanism for an object-based spoken dialogue manager.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2000
Object-oriented modelling of spoken language dialogue systems.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2000

Intelligent interface technology: from theory to reality?
Interact. Comput., 2000

Knowledge discovery in distributed databases using evidence theory.
Int. J. Intell. Syst., 2000

Speech recognition software: a tool for people with dyslexia.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Integrating flexibility into a structured dialogue model: some design considerations.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

1999
Speech recognition in the secondary school classroom: an exploratory study.
Comput. Educ., 1999

Curricula and courseware in spoken language engineering in europe: a critical appraisal.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Software to support research and development of spoken dialogue systems.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Dialogue Management Functionality.
Proceedings of the EACL 1999, 1999

1998
Voice dictation in the secondary school classroom.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Modelling spoken dialogues with state transition diagrams: experiences with the CSLU toolkit.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

1997
SYMCON - A Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist System for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Appl. Intell., 1997

An Object-Oriented Model for the Design of Cross-Domain Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real Applications@ACL/EACL 1997, 1997

1995
Word Sense Disambiguation by a Hybrid Approach.
Proceedings of the Fifth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1995

A Multimedia Interface for Circuit Board Assembly.
Proceedings of the Multimodal Human-Computer Communication, 1995

1994
Job Cost and Constraint Relaxation for Scheduling Problem Solving in the CLP Paradigm.
Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994

1993
An Extended Framework for Evidential Reasoning Systems.
Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell., 1993

User modelling for adaptive computer systems: a survey of recent developments.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 1993

Editorial.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 1993

1992
Representing Heuristic Knowledge in D-S Theory.
Proceedings of the UAI '92: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1992

1990
An extended framework for evidential reasoning systems.
Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, 1990

1988
Book reviews.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 1988


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